Band Booking – Page 5 – Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Band Booking: Talking Rites of Passage and Winds of Change with Woodpigeon

February 12, 2013 No Comments

Woodpigeon is a sprawling, continent-hopping musical project led by Mark Andrew Hamilton, a multi-instrumentalist from Calgary, Alberta who has lived in Vienna, Austria and Edinburgh, Scotland and assembled a huge array of musical partners in his travels. Ranging from orchestral pop to more folky detours, Woodpigeon has released three previous studio albums and has developed a significant following in North America and Europe. I caught up with Mark Hamilton over the phone where we spoke about his band, his songs, […]

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Band Booking: Talking Songwriting, NYC and Recordings with Cool Serbia

February 7, 2013 No Comments

Raz Khandpur, Renan McFarland and Caleb Harmon make up Cool Serbia, a Brooklyn band who play feedback-heavy rock music in venues across New York City and its environs. They began in Austin in December 2010 as Boy’s Life, changed their name a year later, and moved to New York not long after that. I caught up with them in their studio last weekend and got them to chat about their new EP, their move and the state of recorded music.

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Band Booking: Talking William Carlos Williams And Mutual Aid With Advaeta

February 5, 2013 No Comments

Advaeta was the first band I booked for my music space when I was living in a loft off the Morgan stop on the L train. Over the past couple of years I’ve seen them play in concert halls and DIY spaces alike, and have always enjoyed their textured, riff-heavy sound and tightly-coordinated performances. With Lani Combier-Kapel on drums, Sara Fantry on multi-instrumental duty with bass, keyboards and guitar and Amanda Salane on lead guitar and vocals, the band has […]

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Band Booking: Talking Searchable Band Names and Booze With The Denzels

January 29, 2013 No Comments

The Denzels have been playing shows around Brooklyn for the past two years, releasing two EPs in the process: Slow Death and last year’s Easy Tiger. Their membership (David Beegun, Tom Hinga, Aman Ellis, Matthew Degorio and Paul Lizarraga) hails from the South and the West Coast, and have gathered in Brooklyn to produce a garage rock and synth-inflected musical project with overt pop ambitions. I saw them play at the Living Bread deli in Bushwick, and met up with singer Tom Hinga and keyboardist […]

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Band Booking: Talking Fetishism, Language and Narrative With Parenthetical Girls

January 10, 2013 1 Comment

Parenthetical Girls are an art pop band from Portland, Oregon. Formed in 2002 under the Brian Eno-inspired name “Swastika Girls”, they’ve developed a varied repertoire of albums and singles across a decade-long career, centered on their three previous full-length releases: (((GRRRLS))), Safe As Houses and 2008’s Entanglements. They’ve collaborated with Xiu Xiu and Dead Science, and have accumulated a devoted following.

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Band Booking: Talking True Crime and Bad Economists With Heaven’s Gate

December 18, 2012 1 Comment

Heaven’s Gate is a rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. Formed after the dissolution of the punk/shoegaze band Sweet Bulbs, their garage-tinged sound boasts driving guitars and clear ringing vocals courtesy of their singer Jess Paps. Composed of members Mike Sheffield, Jess Paps, Jack Wolf, Patrick Stankard and Alex Cvetovich, they sound like what would happen if My Bloody Valentine had listened to more Gun Club. I caught up with them backstage at New York University’s Kimmel Center, where […]

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Band Booking: Talking Kafka, Toronto, and Biographies with METZ

December 11, 2012 No Comments

METZ are a noise/punk band from Toronto, currently on tour promoting their self-titled debut LP. Though they’ve long been a respected band in the Toronto scene, they’ve garnered a huge amount of fresh buzz in a short period of time, due to their recent signing to legendary Seattle label Sub Pop. As anyone who’s ever attended one of their gigs can attest, they are masters of the wall-of-sound technique and consistently deliver one of the most blistering live shows around. I got […]

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Band Booking: Matmos on ESP, Conceptual Art, and Isaac Asimov

November 7, 2012 1 Comment

Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt comprise Matmos, whose music appeals equally to the cerebral and the instinctual. Their first work for Thrill Jockey is The Ganzfeld EP, which takes as its starting point a series of experiments having to do with ESP; a new full-length album, The Marriage of True Minds, will follow next year. I checked in with Daniel and Schmidt at their Baltimore home to talk psychic research, concept art, and much more.